Expression Blend for WPF and Silverlight Developers
This is one of a set of notes for talks I attended as part of DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper9, held at Microsoft Reading on 29th January 2011. They are mostly for my...
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What’s New in ASP.NET MVC 2.0 and 3.0
This is one of a set of notes for talks I attended as part of DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper9, held at Microsoft Reading on 29th January 2011. They are mostly for my own...
Learning from the HTML5 Boilerplate
This is one of a set of notes for talks I attended as part of DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper9, held at Microsoft Reading on 29th January 2011. They are mostly for my own...
Rewriting software is the single worst mistake you can make – apparently
This is one of a set of notes for talks I attended as part of DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper9, held at Microsoft Reading on 29th January 2011. They are mostly for my own...
AJAX with jQuery
This is one of a set of notes for talks I attended as part of DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper9, held at Microsoft Reading on 29th January 2011. They are mostly for my own...
DDD9 – Reading – 29th Jan 2011
I attended the DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper event yesterday at Microsoft Reading. I was a great event, a really good chance to hear some good speakers, and catch up on...
Vista, IE8, Windows Live, Thunderbird can’t open attachments
This is more tech support than development, but I’ve just spent two entire evenings looking for and fixing this problem on my Mum’s PC (200 miles away, via...
SQL Server Reporting Services: recently executed/modified reports
Some quick SQL statements to easily find out what your most recently accessed reports, and your recently modified reports are, on your SQL Server Reporting Services instance.
Using NOLOCK to avoid dead-locks
I want to talk about NOLOCK. NOLOCK is a SQL Server T-SQL hint which you can give to the compiler in your SQL to tell it that it needn’t bother locking the records...
New Job? Relax & follow the 90-day plan
Moving jobs can be stressful. You know what you're capable of, but you feel like you have to prove it to yet another set of people, a group of semi-sceptical will-be colleagues.
About Me
Hi, I'm Tom. I'm a Microsoft 365 Developer & Architect. I empower developers, architects, and organizations to achive more with Microsoft 365 by creating applications and services with technologies like Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Bot Framework, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Graph, Adaptive Cards, and Office Add-Ins.
I'm passionate about creating great software that people will find useful and I want to help you do the same. This is my blog, you can find more about me, speaking engagements, code sample and more on my main site.
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